Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal
Author: Leonidas Donskis
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9042017279
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Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal
Author: Leonidas Donskis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9401201714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLoyalty and betrayal are among key concepts of the ethic of nationalism. Marriage of state and culture, which seems the essence of the congruence between political power structure and collective identity, usually offers a simple explanation of loyalty and dissent. Loyalty is seen as once-and-for-all commitment of the individual to his or her nation, whereas betrayal is identified as a failure to commit him or herself to a common cause or as a diversion from the object of political loyalty and cultural/linguistic fidelity. For conservative or radical nationalists, even social and cultural critique of one’s people and state can be regarded as treason, whereas for their liberal counterparts it is precisely what constitutes political awareness, civic virtue, and a conscious dedication to the people and culture. "This book is the first attempt to provide a discursive map of Lithuanian liberal and conservative nationalism. Analyzing the works and views of dissenters and critics of society and culture, we can reveal a mode of being of liberal nationalism as a social and cultural criticism. This volume is of interest for intellectual historians, social theorists, students of East-Central European thought, and anyone interested in Baltic studies and the new members of the EU. Dissent: act of betrayal, or loyalty? Leonidas Donskis' new remarkable study is one consistent, thorough and dedicated effort to provide an answer to that question." – Zygmunt Bauman (from the Preface)
The Europe of Elites
Author: Heinrich Best
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 019960231X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Europe of Elites is the first comprehensive study of how European political and economic leaders think and feel about Europe and about what course future European integration should take.
Troubled Identity and the Modern World
Author: L. Donskis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-05-25
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0230621732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book maps what Leonidas Donskis terms 'the troubled identity', that is, the identity that constantly needs assurance and confirmation. Through an identity-building-and-shifting process, argues Donskis, we can move from political majority to cultural minority, or the other way around.
Central and Eastern Europe After Transition
Author: Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1317168992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? Central and Eastern Europe After Transition defines and examines new autonomous differences adopted at the state and the supranational level in the post-transitional phase of the post-Communist area, and considers their impact on constitutions, democracy and legal culture. With representative contributions from older and newer EU members, the book provides a broad set of cultural points for reference. Its comparative and interdisciplinary approach includes a useful selection of bibliographical resources specifically devoted to the Central Eastern European countries' transitions.
Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv
Author: Eleonora Narvselius
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0739164708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation of cultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context. Being anchored to sociological theories on intellectual autonomy and empowerment through narrativization, it approaches daily practices, situations and popular narratives which bring insight into everyday concerns and motivations of the educated Western Ukrainians.
Remigration to Post-Socialist Europe
Author: Caroline Hornstein Tomic
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 3643910258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReturning migrants have been involved in post-socialist transformation processes all across Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Engaged in politics, the economy, science and education, arts and civil society, return migrants have often exerted crucial influence on state and nation-building processes and on social and cultural transformations. However, remigration not only comprises stories of achievements, but equally those of failed integration, marginalization, non-participation and lost potential - these are mostly stories untold. The contributions to this volume shed light on processes of return migration to various Eastern and Southeastern European countries from multidisciplinary perspectives. Particular attention is paid to anthropological approaches that aim to understand the complexities of return migration from individual perspectives.
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
Author: Balázs Trencsenyi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0192565087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and revisit some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such. The present volume is the final part of the project, following Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century', and Volume II, Part I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' (1918-1968) (OUP, 2018). Its starting point is the defeat of the vision of 'socialism with a human face' in 1968 and the political discourses produced by the various 'consolidation' or 'normalization' regimes. It continues with mapping the exile communities' and domestic dissidents' critical engagement with the local democratic and anti-democratic traditions as well as with global trends. Rather than achieving the coveted 'end of history', however, the liberal democratic order created in East Central Europe after 1989 became increasingly contested from left and right alike. Thus, instead of a comfortable conclusion pointing to the European integration of most of these countries, the book closes with a reflection on the fragility of democracy in this part of the world and beyond.
Transformations in Central Europe Between 1989 and 2012
Author: Tomas Kavaliauskas
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 073917410X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. In a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates the post-communist countries.
Remembrance, History, and Justice
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 963386092X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, creating collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that have emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts, such as Germany, Romania, Russia and others.
